You can bet that after you've paid sales tax, shipping, VAT fee (where applicable), money for Sampling RAM, CDR Drive, Expansion Boards, Cables, Pedals, Stands, Stools, and even the Vocalizer upgrade, you will be looking at a cool 4 grand and then some IMO. Besides that, there is NO Hard Drive capability on the Pa1x/Pro, the Sampling is only up to 32mb's [SIMMS], and the Polyphony is just a measly 62 notes. Who's eyes are they trying to pull the wool over! Not mine that's for sure. Sorry Graham!

Best regards,
Mike

PS: I hope you have skinny fingers because you're going to need them to push those narrow bunched together small buttons on it with any accuracy.